From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:03:45 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Early Clones / Rewrites for TUHS archives In-Reply-To: <20171213165814.GJ26887@mcvoy.com> References: <20171212151653.1922118C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20171213165814.GJ26887@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: He had some utilities (that came with the compiler I thought, but I've forgotten that detail to be honest). IIRC, he had a simple shell and the traditional simple file manipulation, although again, IIRC he did not write the associated tools, someone else had. On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 08:46:41AM -0500, Clem Cole wrote: > > I remember Leor bringing BDS C resources/bdsc.html>and > > his Unix emulation for CP/M to a Boston USENIX > > I wrote a lot of code in BDS C, remember it fondly (even though it's stdio > was non-stdio :) > > I never heard about any Unix emulation from him, do you mean the libraries > or something else. > > I ask because I wrote a bunch of tiny CP/M programms, in assembler because > I was using every trick I could to make them small. I believe the ones I > had on every floppy were: > > ls > cp > mv > rm > > and each one of those I made fit in either one or two 512 byte sectors > because they weren't memory resident, it had to spin up the floppy and > read them in each time I ran them. So I wanted them small for two > reasons: speed of reading them in and not taking up precious space on > the floppy. > > I had a utils floppy that had larger programs on it, like grep, my quicknet > terminal emulator/file transfer tool (I wish I had saved the source to > that). > > my CP/M machine was an Okidata with a color(!) monitor and a built in > printer with two floppies so I could do work on one floppy and get the > utils on the other. Hmm, wonder if there is picture of that machine > on the net? Of course there is: > > http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=94 > > So Clem, did Leor do any utilities that I didn't know about or are you > talking about his not so standard C library? > > --lm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: